andrewprock

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by andrewprock 3y ago
The underlying problem is that the "don't repeat yourself" principle is often in conflict with the "single responsibility principle". Structurally, this comes down to the problem of managing dependencies. Over the y
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If you study the context and development of Greek culture, astronomy, and mathematics, a good case can be made that if it wasn't Eratosthenes, it was another Greek astronomer.
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The podcast Song of Urania does a super deep dive into the history of astronomy, including this specific measurement. One of the insights the podcast brings to light is that there were many such estimates; relative size of the Earth, Moon a
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This software is written in Python. You don't have to compile it.
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This seems a bit hyperbolic. I suppose there is a tiny chance that we caused the extinction of the last vestiges of microscopic life on Mars. I doubt it though. Science is about trying things and learning from our mistakes.
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It only takes like 5 minutes to teach someone to play Fluxx, not decades.
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There is tons of archeological evidence dating back to the last ice age, roughly 10,000 years ago. Before that, there is ample evidence dating back to the middle paleolithic identifying cultural traditions including art, music, and ritual.
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by andrewprock 3y ago
The judicial branch does not legislate. It interprets existing legislation. In this case they were interpreting the 14th amendment to the US Constitution. Now, they may not have interpreted it the way you or I would, and they may not have i
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by andrewprock 3y ago
It's worth highlighting that this works for all bit widths, including infinite. When working with infinite representations, the theoretical analogue is p-adic numbers https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-adic_number
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The 100 gallon average includes laundry, bathroom, home landscaping, golf courses and other things as well. Very little of that would be for drinking.
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In my experience, braindead busywork is largely non-existent. Yes, there are times when you'll have to do something easy that conforms to code requirements and standards. But when the frontend needs to update something that is coming f
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So you've reached a point where working together collaboratively is such a burden that you've adopted technologies to circumvent that activity. This suggests that GraphQL adoption is a sign of impending business stagnation. This d
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Yeah. And the context often assumes that dollars are expensive, minutes are cheap, and knowledge is free. Test prep certainly helps. Knowing that test prep helps is key knowledge that is suppressed by these studies. Having the time to engag
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There are a number of papers making related claims. The typical conclusion is: test prep helps, but paying for test prep is only marginally better than self study. For some strange reason they are often summarized as "test prep had no
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If your workplace is regularly bringing you to tears, you should start looking for a new position. No one needs a job with that level of emotional overhead.
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Unless I'm missing something, space splitting should be trivial. If you have two cores and three propositional variables x1, x2, x3, you could simply set x1 to tier on one core and false on the other, and then perform two parallel SAT
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by andrewprock 3y ago
At some point did we change the name from perceptron to neuron? Neural networks don't have neurons.
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If you have take home pay of $120k per year, half of that going to rent would be $5k. Spending that much on rent would only be normal in SF if you were renting a 5 bedroom. Normally people renting a 5 bedroom would be housing a family of fo
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by andrewprock 4y ago
But it was taught specifically to add numbers. Unless my understanding of it's training corpus is way out of line.
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She was not deprived of all sensory input though. In fact, it was through her working senses that she learned and communicated.
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Isn't a 98.5% accuracy quite low for a computer adding numbers?
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What is stopping the LLMs from doing the same?
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The notion that your use cases have static well defines use cases is quaint. In practice, I've seen endless debates about whether state ahold be represented as a variable, parameter, type, or member, often with good arguments for all s
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by andrewprock 4y ago
I would argue that recommender systems that are tuned to drive profits through engagement are exactly what is wrong with today's internet. I don't have a strong opinion of whether they should be protected by Section 230, but nerfi
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I am constantly amazed that chat bots so completely capture imagination. They have been, and will always be a hollow shell of interaction. Has social drive atrophied so much that many (most under 30?) prefer to talk to nothing instead of ta
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"[Therefore,] when God willed that at Joshua’s command the whole system of the world should rest and should remain for many hours in the same state, it sufficed to make the sun stand still. In this manner, by the stopping of the sun, t
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by andrewprock 4y ago
The church was not upset about heliocentrism. They were upset that Galileo was attempting to reinterpret the words of Bible in order to bolster his astronomical authority.
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The $600 checks and free vaccine delivery were the major progressive policies I was thinking of. But those were definitely temporary.
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Over what period of time? Since 1980 there is a clear and dramatic increase in the the concentration of wealth. The pandemic and related problems may have stalled that trend for a time.
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Unless you go to Disneyland and ride the ride. Although it is called Splash Mountain, it is 100% Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox and Brer Bear.

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